In stories of heartbreak and healing, they describe how the symptoms of these disorders really look behind closed doors and how relentlessly fighting for the right diagnosis and treatment led their...
Our friend gave ASPIRE permission to share this letter to her 14-year-old self. Many of us know how it feels to be too affected by PANS/PANDAS/BGE to go to school....
Speaker: Vicki Kobliner, MS, RDN Webinar: Nutritional Interventions in PANS/PANDAS Watch Recorded Webinar: Register to View Materials from Webinar PDF File: Phytonutrient Spectrum Checklist...
D Endres, MA Schiele, BC Frye, A Schlump, B Feige, k Nickel, B Berger, M Reisert, H Urbach, K Domschke, N Venhoff, H Prüss, L Tebartz van Elst. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder With Inflammatory Cerebrospinal Fluid Changes and Intrathecal Antinuclear Antibody Staining. Biological Psychiatry. Elsevier. 3 September 2022. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.06.037
Autoimmune-mediated obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) during childhood has long been established in the context of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infection. In adult psychiatry, the topic has increasingly gained interest in light of new developments regarding autoimmune encephalitis and autoimmune psychosis. Hence, diagnostic criteria for autoimmune OCD in adulthood have been proposed recently, and the first respective cases were reported. For the detection of neuroinflammatory processes, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis (besides the far more invasive brain biopsy) is considered the most sensitive diagnostic tool. Here, we present 2 paradigmatic OCD patients with inflammatory CSF signals including antinuclear antibody staining in CSF and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)/electroencephalography (EEG) findings compatible with OCD.
Speaker: Patricia Rice Doran, EdD Webinar: Behavioral Support for Students with PANS PANDAS at School Register for this webinar: Replay Available Soon. Please register even if you will not attend...